Dressed as the country supergroup The Highwaymen, they battled over staying in or going out in the parody performance.

More The Highwaymen made the names as individual artists before creating one of country's most notable supergroups. Country music pioneers Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Waylon ...

“She [Connie Nelson] brought the braids from Willie, who was on tour. It just tickled Waylon.” More than 30 years later, Nelson’s iconic plaits sold at auction for nearly $40,000.

With new music from Waylon Jennings on the way, the country music icon was honored in his hometown with mysterious billboards ...

The Outlaws (1976) and Waylon & Willie (1978), perhaps the signature outlaw country albums, matched Nelson with friends and fellow travellers like Waylon Jennings, Tompall Glaser and Jessi Colter ...

Jack Vartoogian/Getty Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson onstage at Central Park SummerStage in New York City on May 23, 1993 ...

The Highwaymen made the names as individual artists before creating one of country's most notable supergroups. Country music pioneers Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings ...

Band Together Beth Gwinn/Getty Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson perform at a Fourth of July picnic on July 4, 1985 in Austin, Texas ...